Stephan Spicher

selected works/

biography/

1950	Born in Basel, Switzerland
1969	• Art Academy in Basel and student of the Italian painter B. Assenza • Analyzing Goethes colour concept
1980	Stay in New York
1982	• Stay in Berlin, first black and white works • Ash painting, large scale works • Studio in the Italian part of Switzerland • Wall of ashes series • Several grants of the State of Basel and Cultural Foundations 1984 1986 • Foundation Pro Arte 1984
1986	First travel to Asia, Japan and Taiwan
1987	Studio in Basel • Breakup of pictures into disconnected several-part works • Chromatography
1990	Stay in the United States
1991	Stay in St. Petersburg, Russia
1992	• Christoph Merian Foundation studio and grant in Bali, Indonesia • Series of watercolours
1993	• Travel to Latin America • Space and Counterspace series
1996	• First work on zinc • Colour and non colour, light • Architectural projects, concepts • The line gets concept of drawing and painting • Eternal Line • Line and Emptiness • Zinc panels and architecture
1998	Stay in Bali
2000	Eternal Line on aluminium
2003	Transforming the line into plant energy
2005	Blossom on paper
2006	Blossom on aluminium

art fairs/

2003-2006, 2008	Art Moscow, Gallery Semenov
2007	Art Athina, Gallery Semenov
2007	Art Moscow, Gallery Dmitriy Semenov, Solo show
2005	Bali Biennale
1987 to 1989	Art Basel, Galerie Carzaniga, Franz Mäder Edition Basel
1986	Art Basel Galerie C, Brambach, Solo show
1985 & 1988	Swiss Biennale